Making an Astrolabe Using scissors, cut out the astrolabe silhouette (heavy black lines) on this sheet. Tape this silhouette onto your manila folder sheet and cut out this figure.

This rare 11th-century Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest yet discovered "A powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, & Christians over 100s of years." ...

This discovery sheds new light on the rich history of scholarship and intellectual exchange between Muslims, Jews and Christians during a time of Muslim rule in medieval Spain.

An Islamic astrolabe from medieval Spain, discovered in a museum in Verona, Italy, has been found to contain multiple layers of Hebrew engravings, thought to be additions by various Jewish owners ...

Hidden in a museum’s archives for decades, an ancient astrolabe recently got a closer evaluation in which experts discovered that etched inscriptions on the device showed signs of scientific ...

This medieval astrolabe is officially world’s oldest known such instrument Mariners used the instruments to navigate by the stars while at sea.

Episode Transcript Episode 62 - Hebrew astrolabe Hebrew astrolabe (made fourteenth century), probably from Spain I've got the whole world in my hands - in fact, not just the world, but the cosmos.

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